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The bill introduced Tuesday would give the president the ability to force the sale of foreign-owned technologies, applications, software or e-commerce platforms if they present a national security threat to US users. It doesn’t mention Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd.’s TikTok by name, but the video-sharing app, which has about 100 million users in the US, is the clear target. “We look forward to continue working with both Democrats and Republicans on this bill, and urge…

WASHINGTON —  In late January 2020, I was sitting by a fire in a pub in London and reading the Daily Mail to distract myself from a dry cough that would not go away. The articles in the tabloid warned of a novel coronavirus that would upend the world. The tabloid also insinuated that the virus might have come from a lab in Wuhan, China. The story struck me as sensational. So when I got back to the States, I was shocked to see how quickly the idea of a lab leak took hold. Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists have…

Indian internet firms have expressed optimism about finding clear space for their apps on Android devices as Google failed to find relief in the Supreme Court on an NCLAT and CCI order against the internet giant. In a setback to Google, the Supreme Court has endorsed the order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) declining to grant an interim stay on the imposition of a penalty of ₹1,337 crore on the US tech giant by the competition regulator for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the…

Regardless of how James Gunn’s Superman reboot turns out, there’s a huge number of people out there who are going to continually bash the latest reinvention for the Big Blue Boy Scout, based entirely on the fact the role won’t be played by Henry Cavill. While everyone’s entitled to an opinion, it can’t be overlooked that the DCU’s former canonical Kryptonian didn’t really make much of an impact in the grand scheme of things. While it’s through no fault of his own, Cavill was first announced to be playing Clark Kent in…

The extremely charismatic Bruce Campbell loves to live it up with the fans digitally on social media, with him giving credence tov a very popular fan theory from Wednesday. The disembodied hand known as Thing has returned from past adaptations of The Addams Family to be used prominently in Netflix’s hit series, and it’s reminding many of a certain Bruce Campbell classic. During the events of Evil Dead II: Dead by Daylight, Campbell’s character Ash cuts his own hand off and has to affix a chainsaw to the stump where his…

James Gunn knows all too well that DC fans have a million different questions they want him to answer sooner rather than later, and one of the most pertinent revolves around Henry Cavill’s Superman. After all, it can’t have been a coincidence that the actor was announced to be departing The Witcher after the upcoming third season at right around the same time he made his long-awaited return as the Man of Steel in the post-credits scene of Black Adam, with Dwayne Johnson lobbying long and hard to make it happen. However,…

TV icon Oprah Winfrey on Thursday endorsed Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate race and rejected Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom she had helped launch to stardom nearly two decades ago when she brought him on her popular daytime talk show as a regular guest. Until now, Winfrey had said she would leave the election to Pennsylvanians, but she changed that position in an online discussion on voting in next Tuesday’s election. “I said it was up to the citizens of…

BERLIN— Volkswagen AG’s VOW -2.06% new CEO, Oliver Blume, endorsed his predecessor’s ambitious electric-vehicle strategy on his first day in the job but said traditional combustion engines could also play a role in the company’s effort to reduce its vehicles’ greenhouse-gas emissions.Mr. Blume said that while he backed VW’s EV push and might even accelerate it, VW would likely also produce vehicles with low-carbon combustion engines for…

A panel of experts convened by the US Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday for children under five, the final age group awaiting immunization in most countries.  ​Formal authorizations for Moderna and Pfizer should follow soon, with the first shots in arms expected early next week, just over a year-and-a-half after the first COVID vaccines were greenlighted for the elderly in December 2020.​"This recommendation does fill a significant unmet need for a really ignored younger…

Clarence Avant, the 91-year-old music-industry titan feted by Barack Obama, Quincy Jones and Clive Davis in the documentary “The Black Godfather,” has thrown his support behind billionaire developer Rick Caruso in the L.A. mayoral race.Caruso, in a statement to The Times, said, “I’ve known and loved Clarence for many years, and I am humbled and grateful to have his support. He is not only a legend, but someone who loves L.A. and has devoted his life to lifting up the city that has provided us all so much.”Avant could not…